Launching the ‘Digital Twin’ for the
ocean space. Visualiz.ocean is an
virtual reality digital twin of the ocean environment. It allows simultaneous multiple users to
visualise and control complex multi-dimensional systems within a distributed,
collaborative environment. Capable of
giving each user an individual opportunity to explore the system and its
surrounding environment on multiple scales and perspectives, users are linked
by voice and visual cues within the environment whereever they are physically
located.

The system utilises a high capacity
data backend that can take input from real time monitoring systems or synthetic
data and pass it through to the virtual environment. In a reciprocal fashion changes made by the
host user to the system can be output to real world systems or as input to a
synthetic environment.

The system is data agnostic in this
respect and can simultaneously communicate with real world systems or models to
provide a seamless experience for the users.

This is a new way of viewing data
bridging the divide between spatial data and 3-D representations of these data
when they are varying in the time domain.

It is possible to interpolate real
time data inputs, assess their confidence limits, apply filters or constraints,
control machinery, task or re-task autonomous vehicles no matter where those
assets are located all in collaboration with one's colleagues wherever they
happen to be.

This means that in one shared
environment you can undertake rapid assessment and modelling of:

●Physical oceanographic
conditions

●Autonomous vehicle
behaviour

●Manipulate the
communications environment

●Assess third party
vehicle behaviours and potential vessel interaction